Out in the backwoods

The party is over and I'm heading south
I'm leaving the city I've got to get out
Over and over and over it goes
They get tired of the living before we get old

The brave and the braver and the bravest and me
Set off in a little boat straight out to sea
A rolling and a rolling and a rolling away
The tide would deliver us but I don't know which way

Oh what a day it's been
You could live for a life that you'll never see

Just like a vagabond we stumbled through the brush
Broken and empty we settled in the dust
Lazy and loaded and lifeless I was
I didn't stop to think of the cost

Oh let the light in, you don't always win
But now I'm alive let me begin
Where shall we go and how will we know and how will I get there?
I couldn't let go

The sweet and the sweeter and the sweetest I've known
Came by in the winter, came to carry me
Out of the backwoods where the wild winds would roam
They would cry for the summer, where did it go?